Donna Seyle
Donna Seyle
I founded Law Practice Strategy in 2010 as a resource and information center on the future of law practice and legal technology, focusing on the needs of solos and small firms. LPS offers on-going updates and resources related to why and how to integrate technology and the cloud, project management, alternative fee arrangements, and content marketing to create a successful law practice design.
Solo Lawyers, Small Firms and the Legal Services Industry
One of the primary themes of this blog is how the proliferation of legal service providers will challenge the viability of solo and small...
Virtual Law Practice and Client Relationships: They Are What You Make Them
If you visit the virtual law practice website of Rania Combs, Texas Wills and Trusts Online, you'll see something you wouldn't expect: her telephone...
Ethical Guidelines for Legal Process Outsourcing
Legal Process Outsourcing (LPO) and virtual lawyering have one primary thing in common: they both involve giving up control over some aspect of your...
Adventures in LegalTech Land: Technology Overwhelm
At 11:45 am on Wed, the last day of LegalTech NY 2011, I had an appointment with the editor of a legal technology publication....
Freelance Lawyers and LPOs: Distinguishing Your Services
An interesting conversation is taking place in LinkedIn's group Solo Attorney Practitioner's Forum concerning the prediction that onshore LPOs will proliferate this year and...
How is the Legal Services Act Connected to Law Firm Cost Containment?
I've been going through a massive attack of writer's block lately. It's been a few weeks and it's really wearing on me now. I...
Time Traveling in the Practice of Law
I decided something the other day. You know the saying, how time seems to go faster every year. Everyone says it, but no one...
Lawyers, Meet Vendors, Your New Best Friends
Back in the day, when only large law firms used sophisticated network systems to handle enterprise technology, their IT departments were responsible to assess...
Oh, Data, Where Art Thou? Security, Politics & the Bottom Line
NOTE: This article originally appeared in LJN’s Legal Tech Newsletter, an ALM Media publication (www.ljnonline.com/alm?lt) The ability to convert capital expenditures to operating expenses, tax...
Mixing It Up With LegalTech: New Apps & Uses, Part 2
In the rapidly expanding world of legal technology, development of new products and customized integration of two or more products are making your choices...
Mixing it Up with Legal IT: New Uses & Applications, Part 1
In the rapidly expanding world of legal IT, development of new products and customized integration of two or more products are making your choices...
Law Blogs and Marketing Strategies: Remember What’s Important
As much as lawyers are often maligned in public forums (i.e., are there more lawyers jokes than blonde jokes?), we are still held to...
Creative Law Practice: Love Your Clients, Love Yourself
The aftermath of attending a large conference such as the ABA Annual always leaves me in a pondering mood, as if the experience has...
Virtual Law Practice Opens Access to Justice
The benefits and challenges associated with practicing law using web 2.0 technology are well-known and continue to be debated in many circles worldwide. As...
Google Apps Security For Lawyers: Premier Edition Only
I must confess I never much researched Google Apps’ security provisions. I just assumed that, as a product designed for the general public’s ease...
Axiom Law: Prototype for Innovation
Back in 2000, when Axiom Law Founder Mark Harris decided that big law’s hourly billings were excessive, he may have been the only lawyer who cared....
Law Practice Strategy: A New Resource for Solo and Small Firms
If you follow my blog with any regularity, you know that my passion revolves around the changing face of the legal profession. As with...
Preparing to Meet the General: What Do You Think About the (Legal) Revolution?
I will have the opportunity to attend the Generals of the Revolution conference on Tuesday, June 15, sponsored by Data Cert. Richard Susskind will...
Your Legal Career: Employment Strategies, Choices and Alternatives
More attorneys than ever before have been affected by the need to develop marketing and rainmaking skills, whether they are sole practitioners or large...
Law Blogs: How To Combine Information and Compassion
I recently came across a post by 16-year-old Nigerian entrepreneur named Onibalusi Bamidele on www.ariwriter.com called Blogging with Influence in 5 Easy Steps. Besides...